I'll be going to the garage because a bloody piece flew (a bit of plastic that is used to cover the window frame) off my car mid-highway. I was lucky that the piece didn't hit another car and cause an accident.

- I saw the movie World War Z with Brad Pitt this weekend. People kept warning me that it's no good going to this movie for Brad Pitt because he no longer looks good. Pffft, well, I was never one to drool over Pitt and sure, he doesn't look like a 20-year old any more but I figure he still looks very good in it + I like the fact that he doesn't desperately want to try and look like a 20-year old.

- more royal stuff nobody gives a damn about but I'll ramble about it anyway: up until now, our monarchs have been French-speakers who speak Dutch with quite an accent which caused controversy because Dutch is the language of the majority and it's not something they only find out when they get on the throne, is it? King Albert II speaks really good Dutch and his son, soon to be king Philippe also speaks decent Dutch (but his accent is heavier). However, you can hear that their first language is French. Philippe's daughter and soon, next in line to the throne (our very first female monarch ) will now get French lessons because her first language apparently is Dutch (she goes to a Dutch-speaking school, has a Dutch-speaking nanny,...). I like the girl already.
Oh, and she's getting Chinese language lessons since 2 years already.

Besides, we've had enough monarchs with terrible French accents. It's time for somebody who speaks Dutch flawlessly.

This is the kind of reasoning that triggers tensions between Flemings and Walloons I'm afraid... Who cares as long as they treat both communities equally? I don't care if my politicians speack French with a horrible Swiss German accent, as long as they do a good job.

It's not the same for a politician, though.
Most of them are not born with the knowledge that they will be a politician one day.

Our prime minister speaks awful Dutch but he does the job. That's no problem.

These royal people know from birth that they will be the monarch over a multi-language country. You pick up a language much more quickly when you're really young so they should learn both languages + German from the start.

Elisabeth is fluent in Dutch and in French (her parents are Frenchspeakers after all) but she needs extra lessons for her written French. But she's going to be our first monarch (if it still exists by then) to be perfect in Dutch.